Toba
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- Lake TobaLake TobaLake Toba is a lake and supervolcano. The lake is 100 kilometres long and 30 kilometres wide, and 505 metres at its deepest point. Located in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra with a surface elevation of about , the lake stretches from to...
, a lake in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, and site of the volcanic Toba eruption 75,000 years ago- Toba catastrophe theoryToba catastrophe theoryThe Toba supereruption was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred some time between 69,000 and 77,000 years ago at Lake Toba . It is recognized as one of the Earth's largest known eruptions...
, according to which modern human evolution was affected by the Toba eruption
- Toba catastrophe theory
- Toba, MieToba, Mieis a city in Mie, Japan.Toba is the site of the Toba Aquarium, which houses such animals as dugongs, African manatees, porpoises, and a wide-variety of aquatic life....
, a city in Mie prefecture, Japan - Toba (Nova Crnja)Toba (Nova Crnja)Toba is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Nova Crnja municipality, in the Central Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority and its population numbering 691 people .-History:...
, a village near Nova Crnja, Serbia - Toba, Ethiopia
- Toba, TibetToba, TibetToba is a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.-See also:*List of towns and villages in Tibet...
- Toba, JhelumToba, JhelumToba is a village and union council of Jhelum District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. It is part of Pind Dadan Khan Tehsil,....
, a village in Pakistan
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- Toba (tribe)Toba (tribe)The Toba are an ethnic group in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. They are part of a larger group of indigenous inhabitants of the Gran Chaco region, called the Guaycurues. As of 2005, there are 47,951 Toba in Argentina, living in the provinces of Chaco, Formosa and Santa Fe.The Toba name themselves...
, South American natives originally from the Gran Chaco region - Toba or the TuobaTuobaTuoba, or Tabgach, were a clan of Xianbei people of ancient China.-Xianbei Tuoba:Tuoba was a clan of the Xianbei people in the early centuries of the 1st millennium AD. They established the State of Dai from 310 to 376 AD, and the Northern Wei Dynasty from 386 to 536 AD...
people, Asia - Toba Sur language, spoken in South America
- Batak Toba, spoken in Indonesia
- Emperor TobaEmperor Tobawas the 74th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.Toba's reign spanned the years from 1107 through 1123.- Genealogy :...
, emperor of Japan - Crataegus × mordenensis 'Toba'Crataegus × mordenensisCrataegus × mordenensis, Morden Hawthorn, is a hybrid that arose between two species in the genus Crataegus , Crataegus laevigata and Crataegus succulenta...
, cultivar of the Morden Hawthorn - Theater Owners Bookers AssociationTheater Owners Bookers AssociationTheater Owners Booking Association, or T.O.B.A., was the vaudeville circuit for African American performers in the 1920s and 1930s. The theaters all had white owners and collaborated in booking jazz, blues, comedians, and other performers for black audiences...
(T.O.B.A.), a major black vaudeville circuit - Month of TobiMonth of TobiTobi , also known as Touba, is the fifth month of the Coptic calendar. It lies between January 9 and February 7 of the Gregorian calendar...
, or Touba, the fifth month of the Coptic calendar - TOBATorsion-Bar AntennaA torsion-bar antenna is a novel scheme for a gravitational wave detector, proposed by M. Ando, et. al in 2010. The proposed design is composed of two, long, thin bars, suspended as torsion pendula in a cross-like fashion...
, or TOrsion-Bar Antenna, a proposed gravitational wave detector